Thursday, March 20, 2025
The frozen mind
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Surrealist automatism. I came across the phrase in a blog I read. Yes, blogs still exist in the age of TikTok. Anyway, the phrase means...
Friday, January 3, 2025
AI and the Teaching of Writing: an inner dialogue
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A former colleague had an assignment I like: “A political autobiography,” where students trace the arc of how their beliefs have changed ove...
Monday, November 25, 2024
Frozen
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I long debated if I should write this. It’s personal. It’s also political. For seven years in the previous decade, I blogged daily. I wrote ...
Monday, November 4, 2024
Chaos
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Chaos. It is a quintessential attribute of life, the universe, and everything. I don’t handle it very well, though. In fact, it’s my number ...
Thursday, August 1, 2024
1982: The summer of science fiction
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A new book about science fiction dropped last Tuesday. Obviously, I haven’t had time to read it, but I wanted to give my own riffs off its u...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
AI and the "either/or" fallacy
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Credit to the artist of the cartoon, whose name is Beancius if I’m reading it correctly. “There are only two kinds of people when it comes t...
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